Am I supposed to call EntityManager.clear() often to avoid memory leaks?

Question

I\'m new to JPA/OpenJPA and I noticed that if I don\'t call EntityManager.clear() after i persist entities I get an OutOfMemoryError (I keep adding

Answer 1

I don't have much experience with JPA. However this'll be useful -
In JPA you must either:
- Create a new EntityManager for each transaction.
- Call clear() after each transaction to clear the persistence context.